Melissa Wen and Peter Hutterer on Linux Graphics
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Melissa Wen: Display/KMS Meeting at XDC 2024: Detailed Report
XDC 2024 in Montreal was another fantastic gathering for the GNU/Linux Graphics community. It was again a great time to immerse in the world of graphics development, engage in stimulating conversations, and learn from inspiring developers.
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Peter Hutterer: hidreport and hut: two crates for handling HID Report Descriptors and HID Reports
A while ago I was looking at Rust-based parsing of HID reports but, surprisingly, outside of C wrappers and the usual cratesquatting I couldn't find anything ready to use. So I figured, why not write my own, NIH style. Yay! Gave me a good excuse to learn API design for Rust and whatnot. Anyway, the result of this effort is the hidutils collection of repositories which includes commandline tools like hid-recorder and hid-replay but, more importantly, the hidreport (documentation) and hut (documentation) crates. Let's have a look at the latter two. Both crates were intentionally written with minimal dependencies, they currently only depend on thiserror and arguably even that dependency can be removed.